Bhuchung D. Sonam reviews "The Red Wind Howls"
Suppressed in China, Tsering Döndrup’s novel reaches English readers with an unflinching account of imprisonment, famine, death, and generational trauma.
@badsonam.bsky.social @tricyclemag.bsky.social
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Everyone, go read @historianca.bsky.social’s newest article in Eighteenth-Century Studies! 🎉
Sisters But Not Women: Queer Kinship and Salvific Androgyny in Ephrata’s Celibate Sisterhood
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My colleague @rhcraig.bsky.social is in the next issue of JAAR with a fascinating comparative study of Early Christian preaching manuals, African-American homiletics, and early Buddhist preaching: academic.oup.com/jaar/article...
Did I mention our keynotes?
Evren Savci, author of Queer in Translation : Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam &
Lamya H, author of Hijab Butch Blues
Hey friends! There's still time to register for this year's Queer and Trans Studies in Religion conference happening this coming weekend - Feb 13-15. It's entirely online this year. (but you do need to register to receive the zoom link) studyofreligion.ucr.edu/holstein-cha...
Today, February 10, 2026, marks the official publication day of “Ocean, As Much As Rain – Stories, Lyrical Prose, and Poems from Tibet” by Tsering Woeser, published by @dukepress.bsky.social, edited and translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain with Dechen Pemba.
Cover of Medieval Ecocriticisms volume 4. Includes a medieval illustration of a half-bird siren looking in a mirror and a centaur looking over their shoulder (from Getty MS Ludwig XV 3, folio 78).
Table of contents: Intro by Nat Rivkin and Aylin Malcolm; “Settler Fantasies and Queer Disruptions: A Nonbinary Reading of Gerald’s Wolves” (SARAH LAVOY-BRUNETTE AND JORDAN CHAUNCY); “Birds, Blood, and Nonbinary Bodies in Marie de France’s Yonec” (AYLIN MALCOLM); “Cautious Lion, Canny Woman: Queer Animality in La Response du bestiaire” (TESS WINGARD); “Trans Activisms and Interspecies Entanglement in the Middle English Patience” (ELLIS LIGHT); “Of Giantesses, Greenland, and Trans Ecology in Jökuls þáttr Búasonar” (BASIL A. PRICE); “Trans Antagonisms and Affirmations in Henry Medwall’s Nature” (MICAH JAMES GOODRICH)
I am so excited to present our special issue on "Trans Natures" in medieval literature: scholarworks.wmich.edu/med_ecocriti...
The intro is free to read. Thanks to the journal’s flexible policies, some authors have also posted their articles on their personal sites…. #MedievalSky #EnvHum #EcoCrit
This is good
It was always inevitable that the two dictates "We need to teach our students the Greek classics" and "We need to avoid teaching anything controversial about gender and race" were going to come into conflict with one another.
I have finally finished my list of 12 essays by Indigenous trans women in North America (plus some extra audio/video links). Please please please spend some time getting to know their work. Too often people use Indigenous trans women as a figure to weaponize rather than sit and think with them.
Transhuman Mysticisms: Animals, Aliens, and Objects
#aarsbl25
Tomorrow morning, 9-11, I’ll be responding to a very interesting panel:
Transhuman Mysticisms: Animals, Aliens, and Objects
CFP: Queer & Trans Studies in Religion, Feb. 13-15!
Zoom or in-person. Deadline is Nov. 25.
(CFP: tinyurl.com/3pwjz5c2)
I'm proposing a panel on trans/queer methods in Asian Studies (across India, Thailand & China so far). There's room for 1-2 more panelists, so let me know if you're interested!
She wasn’t on my dissertation committee but I did take several seminars with her (on Gnosticism and a multi year seminar on NRMs).
Speaking candidly, I found her writing feedback often very tough, but looking back I can appreciate the push. I think her main students could probably tell you more.
She grounds discussion of ancient texts with references to movies like The Matrix, Pleasantville, The Truman Show & Dark City.
The other thing that stood out to me is how she pushed back against scholars like Karen King and Michael Allen Williams who try to disaggregate Gnosticism as a category.
I went to Rice and studied a bit with DeConick and we read this book accompanied by a film festival of the movies she discussed, which was pretty interesting
friends, did you know that the annual Queer and Trans Studies in Religion conference, hosted by UC Riverside in mid-February, is still on?
the deadline for submissions has been extended to November 25!
Check out the CFP at this link:
tinyurl.com/3pwjz5c2
Excited to see the Palgrave Handbook of Queer and Trans Studies in Religion come out today! I've got a co-authored chapter in it on trans ritual and so many of the other chapters look amazing! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Hard to overstate how transformative Jane Goodall was as a scientist.
She took the best of the scientific method--empirical observation--and used it to push back on existing scientific orthodoxies.
my book_smoke & mirrors_ is out on oxford scholarship online. i have many feelings, mostly good! this was a difficult write for many reasons.
so i hope you find something useful in it if you read it.
I’m excited to share that, together with Tim Thurston, I have translated 11 Amdo Tibetan comedic performances known as Khashag. The book has just been published by Open Book Publishers as part of their World Oral Literature series. www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
I call on media to REFUSE the framing pushed by right wing chaos agents like Cernovitch & Rufo on this act of what appears to be political violence. The Democratic former Speaker of the Minnesota House was assasinated along with/her husband. The killers was hunting Dems. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
Another school shooting happened today, bringing the total to 47 school shootings in total this year. Will it ever end?
“Political violence” doesn’t just mean vigilantes shooting political candidates or activists (which, to be clear, I strongly oppose). ICE disappearing people is also political violence. Police shootings are also political violence. Bombings are political violence.
Some of you are about to find out what your fantasies of violent revolution are going to lead to.
This will lead to nothing but darkness, but too many people confuse hurting an enemy with actually achieving a goal and solving a problem. It's an issue that plagues all identities and communities.
Available open access: my article on Tibetan Buddhist life writing and trans / queer studies.
read.dukeupress.edu/qtr/article/...
It’s here!
The latest issue of QTR just dropped!
What an incredible line-up of articles by @learnedfoote.bsky.social, El Ambrose, @chancebonar.bsky.social, plus…
read.dukeupress.edu/qtr/issue/2/1
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check out this incredible conversation Katy Valentine had w/ Joy Ladin on the latest episode of the Trans Biblical podcast @katyvalentine.bsky.social + @joyladin.bsky.social
Joy’s essay in our collection is an indispensable entree into trans readings of biblical texts!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=0sEK...
And they keep telling me Gender Studies is a useless academic discipline: www.bbc.com/news/article...
